Using URL Reporting to open latest report instance

I know that there are two methods of opening reports in Business Objects Enterprise 3.1:
1) URL reporting
2) opendocument
I like URL reporting as you can embed the user name and password within the URL.
I was able to get URL reporting to work to look view a report on demand.
Request
I would like to be able to open the latest instance of a report using URL reporting, not using opendocument, as I want the user to be able to open the latest instance without logging in.

There is nothing written with both TA and opendocument. I just noticed the forum posts wanting to use the old viewreport and thought this was a better solution. If on XIR2 then setting up TA will affect infoview users and generate errors (for not TA users) but on XI 3.x it would only affect opendocument users. If no username were provided in the URL then you may see an error (I don't recall seeing errors on 3.x). This could be easily resolved on XIR2 by having 2 instances of the web/app on different ports (one with TA enabled and one without).
As there have been multiple inquiries on this topic I just wrote up a new trusted auth note for setting up QUERY_STRING (requires SMP login to look up and view)
1422248 - Setting up Trusted Authentication in XI 3.x for opendocument infoview using QUERY_STRING
Regards,
Tim

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